The Analysis of Solution Focused Brief Counseling Contribution in Reducing First-Year Students Academic Stress Symptoms

Abstract

Various contributing factors influence the success of the learning process. Stress is one of the big problems experienced by students, especially first-year students. Students in the first year who live separately from parents tend to experience stress resulting in stressful conditions. Life changes to career decisions in the form of majors will also affect students' stress levels. Furthermore, these stress conditions are also compounded by changes in educational patterns at the educational level. An approach considered capable of being a strategic step in reducing these conditions is Solution Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC). This approach can help clients strengthen self-autonomy, strengthen thinking that focuses on solutions, formulating responsibilities, develop independence, increase self-control, and increase clients' quality of positive resources. This research aims to analyze the contribution of SFBC in reducing the academic stress conditions of first-year students. This study involved five students with high academic stress levels using the Student Academic Stress Scale (SASS). The research results show that SFBC is effective in reducing the academic stress level of first-year students.